As a result, Johnson said, the federal government is making a greater effort to engage with state and local law enforcement and encourage them to be “vigilant” about what is happening in their communities.

Now that people are waking up and threating the NSA’s DHS and the DEA’s mass surveillance of Americans without a warrant campaign. DHS plants, sorry politicians like Senator Burr claim 9/11 could have been preventable with mass surveillance.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday defended his support for a measure in the USA Patriot Act that has anchored a National Security Agency program to collect Americans’ phone data.

Speaking at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston, McConnell called the measure “an important tool to prevent the next terrorist attack,” and pledged to continue fighting for it against recent challenges.